Solutions Architect

Are you looking for an opportunity to turn your ambition and your people skills into a rewarding career with an industry leader? Join our team at American Tire Distributors! As the nation's premier tire distributor, ATD's coast-to-coast distribution network provides approximately 80,000 customers across the U.S. and Canada with rapid and frequent delivery of high quality tires, custom wheels and shop supplies. Position Description: The Solutions Architect is responsible for defining the technical architecture and roadmap for designated applications. This position creates scalable, maintainable, and well-documented solutions. The role actively contributes to creating complex site architectures, oversees design implementation, estimates new projects, resolves technical issues, and influences technical direction in enterprise architecture meetings. Key Responsibilities Adopts standard blueprints, standards, and frameworks with major impact to integrity, security, and reusability for use in design, development and engineering . Applies best practices, tools, and reusable code to increase the efficiency and productivity of development, engineering and product teams (i.e. data modeling standards, microservice design patters, cloud native blueprints). Champions reusability, scalability and cloud native patterns in solution design. Collaborate with IT peers to promote the latest architecture principles, standards, methods, and strategic direction for the enterprise. Collaborate with other technology architects to architect and implement microservices (MSA), service-oriented architecture (SOA), and API integrations with backend systems/technology. Define the technical architecture, platform, and roadmap for all B2B and B2C web and mobile applications. Drive Engineering Excellence across the digital development team by optimizing design/code maintainability and improving productivity. Establish specific digital architecture strategies to meet business requirements for the digital commerce platform. Lead efforts to optimize current platforms (e.g., SAP Commerce Cloud, Java/Spring/SQL) to enhance customer acquisition and testing capabilities. Leverages new technology paradigms (e.g., serverless, containers, microservices, AI, Blockchain, Machine Learning). Partner with key stakeholders to develop architectural approaches collaboratively, leading solutioning with an Agile, hands-on engineering mindset. Understands business requirements so that solution options that are recommended provide the best fit against requirements. Competencies Action Planning - The ability to review and evaluate recommendations and requirements and to develop appropriate plans or deliver actions required. Action-Oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm. Architecture - The ability and skill to design architectures, incorporating system/service requirements and based on the appropriate software and hardware required for the business Balances Stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders. Business Insights - Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals. Business Requirements Analysis - Ability to express user needs in terms of business requirements, identify current capability of the business to deliver, conduct build or buy analyses, and recommend preferred approach; Analysis Skills, Determine acceptance and evaluation criteria, Focus groups, Observation, Prioritization, SWOT analysis, requirements analysis software Communicates Effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. Courage - Stepping up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said. Data Collection and Analysis - The ability and skill to determine and analyze trends from data that is collected to assist in compiling reports that will help in decision-making including proficient use of aligned software (e.g., Tableau, etc) Decision Quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward. Develops Talent - Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals. Document and Model User Requirements - Ability to utilize the appropriate modeling tool(s) to diagram the requirements from data and state changes, process and process improvements, as well as use cases and user stories; affinity diagram, managing changes to reuiqrements and requests, technical writing Drives Results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances. Instills Trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity. IT Data Management - The ability and skill to develop and execute architectures, policies and practices in order to manage the information lifecycle needs of an organization. IT Implementation and integration - The ability and skill to implement, configure and optimize systems and services. IT Testing - The ability and skill to design, execute and report on systems/service tests to ensure that an application functions as specified in the requirements. Manages Ambiguity - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear. Network/IT security - The ability and skill to maintain system/service and information security, integrity, compliance and continuity. Nimble Learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder. Perform Gap Analysis - Ability to conduct gap analysis between current and future states to identify components of the overall change strategy.0 Plans & Aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals. Qualifications 5 years of related experience preferred Skills Architecture Cultivates Innovation Data Collection and Analysis Document and Model User Requirements Ensures Accountability Manages Complexity Nimble Learning IT Data Management IT Implementation and integration IT Testing Network/IT security Plans & Aligns Optimizes Work Processes Perform Gap Analysis Persuades Situational Adaptability Tech Savvy Action Planning Action-Oriented Business Requirements Analysis Physical Demands/Working Conditions Physical Demands Category: Our people are passionate about what they do, the product they sell, and the customers they serve. If you're looking for an opportunity to be a part of a work family that values collaboration, innovation and dedication, we're the right company for you. Build a challenging and rewarding career with us! American Tire Distributors is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Workplace To review our Privacy Policy, click here.

Created: 2026-03-04